Monday, 16 September 2013

Sepia Saturday 195: 21 September 2013

"It is not enough to teach children how to read, write and count. Education has to cultivate mutual respect for others and the world in which we live, and help people forge more just, inclusive and peaceful societies."

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; 100-day countdown message to the International Day of Peace

This Saturday co-incides with the International Day of Peace and more specifically to Peace Education; this is too good an opportunity to miss. It is often said that we learn so much from Sepia Saturday, both as participants and visitors to each other's blogs, so now is our chance to embrace the theme and do our bit for this important day observed throughout the world. The splendid photo above comes from the archive of the Library of Congress and features the American delegates to the International Congress of Women, held in the Hague in 1915. One of the delegates, Jane Addams, was the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Activities around the world this year will include; ceremonies, prayers, choirs, tree-planting, art exhibitions, lighting candles and peace walks. Your response could be one of these from the past, historical or personal, or you may like to go with the Nobel Peace Prize or Peace Education. As the box on the top right of this page reminds us, it can be fact, fiction, poetry or prose. I'm very much looking forward to your contributions. When you've posted your blog, somewhere around September 21, don't forget to add the link to your actual post (by clicking on its title within the post and then copying the URL which this generates) to Mr Linky, and then leave a comment below. Please link back to this Sepia Saturday page, and there is a mini-banner to add too if you choose. Try to by visit as many other contributors as you can and please make an effort to leave a comment, however small, as a sign of appreciation; we Sepians thrive on comments, and being a friendly group we will try to return the favour.

Don't forget that there is a Sepia Saturday Facebook group too where we often post extras and afterthoughts. We help one another out with technical issues and generally have fun. Now, before you go off on your peace march take a quick look at the upcoming posts, so that you can keep them in mind whilst sorting through the albums. Enjoy your week.

Marilyn(Little Nell)

196. This 1935 Insurance ad has plenty of possibilities to theme; the large bed, small boy, quilt, doctor's bag, toys. Take your pick.

197 : We have all taken photos that are, shall we say, less than perfect. We celebrate these in SS 197 : the pointless photos, the blurred photos, the photos that would have been better left unprinted. But sometimes they tell a powerful story all on their own.

Poems, prayers and choirs had never occurred to me until I read this week's Sepia Saturday posting prompt. This lovely Gaelic Blessing immediately came to mind ad I had to make this second contribution on such a thoughtful theme.

Sepia Saturday

Launched by Alan Burnett and Kat Mortensen in 2009, Sepia Saturday provides bloggers with an opportunity to share their history through the medium of photographs. Historical photographs of any age or kind (they don't have to be sepia) become the launchpad for explorations of family history, local history and social history in fact or fiction, poetry or prose, words or further images. If you want to play along, all we ask is that your sign up to the weekly Linky List, that you try to visit as many of the other participants as possible, and that you have fun.